The complicated reason? Corruption within Western Civilization. Decay as the inevitable outcome of privilege.

Combined, those two reasons, decreasing population and corruption? They spell the very mythic regression that has either thrown us back over a thousand years into the hands of Mohammed… or Biblically back, to the beginning of Eternity. The first appearance of God… and His most gifted but most sadistic and homicidal angel, Lucifer. Rather like the classic Good Cop/Bad Cop routine we see so often on our television set.

I don't think Man has faced a more shameless example of the Devil himself as Bad Cop, the one that terrifies us into either lies and surrender or into the Truth and Courage… no better example of that than ISIS.

ISIS, rather like the legendarily hissing Grand Serpent, has indelibly instituted its own historic Epoch!

Modern Science has no satisfactory explanation for this depth of insanity.

Why?

There is no all-encompassing word for it but "Evil".

We are now back living either in the Bible or, if we choose to "surrender", in the most completely Islamic sense of the word, we are suffering in and under the most orthodox of Qurans!

God bless those who have refused to be Islamized. Who won't Surrender!

The most recent and best exegesis of ISIS, the most insightful overview of its creation, substance and reasons for existence is here in Graeme Wood's essay for The Atlantic.

"The Islamic State may have medieval-style punishments for moral crimes (lashes for boozing or fornication, stoning for adultery), but its social-welfare program is, at least in some aspects, progressive to a degree that would please an MSNBC pundit."

Communist Islam!

The very reason for enduring the horrors of ISIS: cradle-to-grave protection!

For one hundred years, Communism in its most legendary forms, both Stalinist and Maoist, has failed to conquer the entire human race. Failed miserably in its main objective: to destroy any other alternative to Communism.

Now what has happened?

The only other, albeit much older institution of tyrannical ends, Radical Islam, has now decided to join arms, to create an alliance with world Marxism.

Unlike Iran, however, ISIS is a much purer Islamic Force: "One comparison to the Islamic State is the Khmer Rouge, which killed about a third of the population of Cambodia. But the Khmer Rouge occupied Cambodia's seat at the United Nations. "This is not permitted," Abu Baraa (as ISIS spokesman) said. "To send an ambassador to the UN is to recognize an authority other than (Allah's) God's."

ISIS' refusal to negotiate with anyone, including its own fellow Muslims, is a hopeful sign that ISIS can't survive for as long as Hitler did. Then again, that leaves too many other Islamic militants to cast lots over a dead Christ's robe: i. e. Alqaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Yet again, America isn't the only corner of the world to suffer from both decreasing population and corruption.

Why?

The entire English-speaking world has been engulfed by not only Islam, but also by its own decreasing population and its distinctively Western-style corruption.

The English-speaking world's lack of integrity contrasts painfully with the diabolical purity of ISIS.

As Graeme Wood points out, "In reviewing Mein Kampf in March 1940, George Orwell confessed that he had ‘never been able to dislike Hitler'; something about the man projected an underdog quality, even when his goals were cowardly or loathsome. ‘If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon.' The Islamic State's partisans have much the same allure. They believe that they are personally involved in struggles beyond their own lives, and that merely to be swept up in the drama, on the side of righteousness, is a privilege and a pleasure—especially when it is also a burden."

The place in which to survive and out of which to rise and fight another day or in another century.

Michael Moriarty is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor who starred in the landmark television series Law and Order from 1990 to 1994. His recent film and TV credits include The Yellow Wallpaper, 12 Hours to Live, Santa Baby and Deadly Skies. Contact Michael at rainbowfamily2008@yahoo.com. He can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/@MGMoriarty.